Fellowships
ANU Australian Studies Institute Visiting Fellowship Program
The ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) Visiting Fellowship Program brings early and mid-career researchers to the ANU campus to conduct and share research that promotes the study of Australia or transnational and comparative research involving Australia. Each Visiting Fellow will be provided with AUD$6,000 (domestic-based) and AUD$12,000 (international-based) maximum allowance in costs towards economy-class travel and accommodation in Canberra.
Australian Parliamentary Fellowship
The Australian Parliamentary Fellowship provides support to an early career scholar to research and write a monograph for publication. The research must relate to the way Parliament functions, the way senators and members operate, or examine how a broad issue in national politics is dealt with in the Parliament. The Fellowship is offered periodically and is of flexible duration (up to six months full-time with provision for part-time or broken periods of employment).
Creative Australia Fellowships
Creative Australia Fellowships of $80,000 support outstanding, established artists’ or arts workers’ creative activity and professional development for a period of up to two years. There are nine Fellowships offered in the areas of: Arts and Disability; Community Arts and Cultural Development; Dance; Emerging and Experimental Arts; First Nations; Literature; Music; Theatre; Visual Arts. If you are successful, the payments will be made in two tranches: $75,000 on acceptance of the funding contract, and $5,000 on acquittal.
John Mulvaney Fellowship - The Australian Academy of the Humanities
In keeping with Professor Mulvaney’s deep commitment to Indigenous people and cultures, the John Mulvaney Fellowship is an award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early career researchers and PhD students working in any area of the humanities. The recipient of the John Mulvaney Fellowship will receive $4000 towards undertaking research or fieldwork in Australia or overseas, including accessing archives and other research materials and connecting with researchers and networks.
Humanities Travelling Fellowships - The Australian Academy of the Humanities
The Humanities Travelling Fellowships, awarded annually, are one of the Academy’s longest standing awards and were first awarded in 1985. These Fellowships support early career researchers with costs of up to $4,000 to undertake research overseas, including accessing archives and other research materials and connecting with international researchers and networks. Incorporated into the Humanities Travelling Fellowships is the David Philips Travelling Fellowship. Preference is given to proposals that contribute to the advancement of knowledge of racial, religious or ethnic prejudice. Offered biennially, this Fellowship is made possible thanks to a generous bequest from Mrs Joan Philips. This Fellowship is named after her late son, Dr David Philips, who was a historian and Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne.
Creative Arts Fellowship - National Library of Australia
This Fellowship offers $35,000 to support practising writers to develop new creative work using or inspired by the National Library’s collections. It offers a writer the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the collections, including music, maps, rare books or ephemera, or original sources like pictures, manuscripts, oral histories and folklore recordings.
National Library of Australia Fellowships
The Library’s Fellowships offer experienced researchers an opportunity to undertake deep and sustained research at the National Library using the Library’s collections. Fellowships are available to researchers who require onsite access to the Library’s uniquely held or extensive collections to advance their research towards publication or other public outcomes. Applicants may work in any field or discipline where the Library's collections have appropriate depth and breadth to support the desired outcomes. Fellows will receive $35,000 to support a sustained research residency at the National Library. Funding is based on 12 weeks at the National Library.
State Library of New South Wales Fellowships
The State Library of New South Wales offers a number of prestigious and competitive fellowships to support the study, writing and teaching of Australian history and culture.
Applications for 2027 open on Monday, 11 May 2026 at 9 am AEST.
black&write! Writing Fellowships - State Library of Queensland
Each year black&write! offers two Fellowships for First Nations writers, awarded through an unpublished manuscript competition open to any First Nations writer currently living in Australia. Two winners will each receive $15,000 prize money, editorial development with the black&write! team, and a publication opportunity with University of Queensland Press.
State Library Fellowships - State Library of Queensland
State Library's Fellowships support researchers and creatives to explore, interpret and contribute to the significant collections of John Oxley Library. By deeply engaging with the collections, fellows generate fresh insights into Queensland’s history.
Applications usually open annually between June and July.
State Library Victoria Fellowships
The State Library Victoria Fellowships Program invites artists, writers and researchers across disciplines to immerse themselves in the State Collection and bring it to life in unique and innovative ways. Fellows receive access to Library staff expertise, an office space around the magnificent Dome, a generous stipend and the opportunity to fulfil their creative passions and research ambitions.
Guidelines and FAQs with key details for the 2026 Fellowship Program will be available mid-February 2026.
Lockie Fellowship - University of Melbourne
The Lockie Fellowship offers research support for writers undertaking an original creative or critical project which advances the study of literature within Australia. This fellowship will provide a one-off payment of up to $15,000.
UTS Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellowship
The UTS Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellowship (CIRF) aims to attract and retain outstanding Indigenous early career researchers. Fellowships are awarded to outstanding early career researchers who wish to develop their research, teaching and learning, management and communication skills to become the next generation of Indigenous academic leaders.
Fryer Library Fellowship - The University of Queensland
The annual Fryer Library Fellowship encourages scholars to visit The University of Queensland and use the collections in the Fryer Library for a research project in areas including: Australian literature; Australian theatre; Indigenous studies; Queensland architecture; Art and design; Australian history and political culture; Women’s studies; and Refugee studies. Successful applicants will receive $20,000 and UQ Library access and digitisation services. They will also have office space, computer access, free copying and full library privileges at UQ St Lucia. This fellowship is available to any scholar from Australia or overseas. It will not usually be awarded to students enrolled in research higher degree programs.
The E.G. Whitlam Research Fellowship - Whitlam Institute
This research fellowship has been established for the purpose of promoting research in Australian politics and public policy guided by the values that oriented Gough Whitlam’s social democratic vision and that demonstrate the contemporary relevance of this vision for 21st century Australia. Each year, the Whitlam Institute will call for applications for the E.G. Whitlam Research Fellowship from candidates with a demonstrable interest in any aspect, historic or contemporary, of the policy agenda of the Whitlam government and/or the Institute’s particular interest in contemporary social democracy. The E.G. Whitlam Research Fellow has the opportunity to work on a project with clear strategic relevance to the Whitlam Institute’s broader public policy program that focuses on issues relevant to a contemporary social democracy, in line with Whitlam’s vision for the Institute to pursue ‘the great and continuing work of building a more equal, open, tolerant and independent Australia’.
Dahl Fellowships - Eucalypt Australia
Dahl Fellowships honour the memory of Bjarne K Dahl. They provide an opportunity for talented and deserving Australians to undertake a project related to eucalypts that is not readily fundable elsewhere. Fellowships of up to $25,000 will be awarded to individual applicants for individual projects that advance the goals of Eucalypt Australia. Priority areas for Fellowships are not limited to, but include: art and literature; development of eucalypt education resources, including indigenous cultural resources; and conservation initiatives. Submissions normally close in August.
Powerhouse Scholars program
Each year the Powerhouse Scholars program develops new research through an annual open call to academics, creative practice-based researchers and independent researchers. Museum staff support scholars to produce innovative projects in dialogue with the Powerhouse Collection and Archives. Their work facilitates new lines of enquiry that expand perspectives on the museum, presented annually at the Powerhouse Scholars symposium.
Applications open in August each year.
Lizard Island Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Lizard Island Postdoctoral Fellowships program has operated since 2008 and 56 awards have been made to date. It is funded by the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation and its donors.
Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowships
The Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowships program supports field-intensive research at Lizard Island Research Station (LIRS) by outstanding PhD students worldwide. Since its inception in 1984, 83 PhD students have been supported. The program is funded by the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation (LIRRF) through its members and friends including some specific donations.